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Supersaiyan Talon - The mightiest glass cannon of all time.

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Spells:

Flash

Ignite

Items

First items

Alternate First items

Core

Final Build

Ability Order

Talon Passive Ability

Introduction

Hello League of Legends community! My name is Sancarn and this is my Super Saiyan Talon guide.

Talon is a champion who does a massive amount of damage in a very short period of time. Talon himself is what we call an Attack Damage Assassin. If any of you are familiar with Katarina then Talon is merely the AD version of her. The whole point of Talon, as far as I am aware, is as what we call a "Glass Cannon".

The term "Glass Cannon" merely means that you jump in to a fight, do a massive amount of damage to a single target such that you kill them and hopefully you get out alive. This can be easier said than done yet with this build you will become the most intense, most damaging Glass Cannon the world has ever seen.

In this guide I shall provide an in depth analysis of Talon, his abilities and synergies the items to his role as a glass cannon. I hope you enjoy reading this guide and that it helps you play as one of the greatest assassins who has ever lived.

Who am I?

My name is Sancarn. I am a level 30 player who normally spends his time attempting to break and counter the meta. I main as support but I drift every now and then into other roles for fun. When I was introduced to Talon I played him several times as an Anti-ADC in the bot lane. My role here was take out the ADC as fast as possible. I had a support Ashe and we continually ruled the bot lane. I came up with this build later on and now use it on ADC Leona bot, however I know that as much as it synergies' perfectly with Leona it also synergies' perfectly with Talon.

This led me to make this guide. Note that I am only in Silver IV, however this is currently because a series of unfortunate games (I believe). I have been matched against people in Gold before and have managed to completely dominate with my non-meta play, however everyone in ranked just automatically assumes I'm trolling =(.

Pros/ Cons

+ Pros +

- Cons -

Very good ganker.
Counters most AP carries.
Very mobile champion.
Great burst.
Strong auto-attack damage.
He's an AD Katarina! =D

Can be mana hungry.
Weak early-game vs AD.
Weak early-game vs bruisers.
Dependant on itemization.
Requires skill to play.
Liable to camping.

Abilities

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

mercy

Mercy is a fantastic ability and sets up 's early game combo. Mercy increases the damage dealt by your auto-attacks by 10% to all cc-ed targets. This coupled with make talon extremely damaging.

mercy

is an empowered auto-attack. If you hit this right after your auto-attack, you will instantly auto-attack with the empowered . also does a massive amount of burst damage as well as causing the target to "bleed" which is a bit like ignite and does damage over time. This, on top of an ignite, can easily secure a kill.

is one of your main damage dealing spells. However I level this last as my build focusses more on building Talon's Auto Attacks rather than his abilities. However the utility with Rake is also very good. Coupled with 's passive, Mercy, this can set up a deadly combo which can melt an enemy APC.

cutthroat

Cutthroat is, in my opinion, 's most powerful ability. teleports behind his target and silences them for 1 second and also amplifies his attack damage by 3/6/9/12/15% which lasts 3 seconds. This is amazing. The fact that it amplifies your attack damage (in general) by a percentage means that your burst increases the more and more AD you have.

cutthroat

is 's finisher and escape. releases a circle of blades, becomes invisible for 3 seconds and gains a 40% movement speed boost. After the 3 seconds have elapsed the circle of blades will then return to by taking the shortest path. I usually use this right at the very end of my combo so I can get out of there and survive the team fight.

However I have seen people use and then running behind the ADC so the blades cut through him/her. If your combo didn't work on the ADC then this is probably what you should do otherwise the fight will just become a 4v5.

Finally note that you will not be invisible to towers. Towers will still see you and attack you even when you are invisible. It is also possible to use this as an initiate though I strongly advise not doing this as it completely gets rid of your escape.

Masteries

Runes

Precision

Fleet Footwork

Phase Rush

Greater Mark of Armor Penetration

I take 9x Greater Mark of Armor Penetration since it is likely that AP mid players will always have some armor from runes. Equally this will help when you are banking the bot lane as ADCs and Supports will normally also have armor for extra survivability. These armour penetration runes will help you do more damage in these cases. At lower levels and elo these could often be switched for 9x. It is also possible to use as these will Amplify your AD end game allowing you to do much more damage.

These are mainly to stop Junglers doing so much damage to you and to give you some more survivability at end game when you dive in on the enemy ADC. Alternate runes could include when against a large amount of AP damage or if you wish to do more Damage. It is also possible to use as these will Amplify your AD end game allowing you to do much more damage.

These are very important when against an AP mid champion. These runes will stop the enemy mid doing so much damage to you when you dive in on them and allow you to have more sustain against their poke. It is also possible to use as these will Amplify your AD end game allowing you to do much more damage however I only suggest this if you are very good at dodging enemy skill shots. for example could do a lot better against an Enemy Lux, for example, if you are very good at dodging her abilities.

Out of all the runes are possibly the most important of all the runes! If you are saving up for any of the runes get these bad boys first! After getting Swiftness Boots with Alacrity your movement speed will be 482. This is extremely high and allows you to engage on your target very easily. Upon the activation of you will gain 40% Movement Speed and thus have a movement speed of 652. This is massive and lets you escape from a team fight on barely any health extremely quickly so you can reach a safe spot and back.

Starting Items and Early Game

Normally, when starting the game I'll take a like most ADC's take. This is because of the massive amount of sustain that gives you. You will keep up until you need to buy your last item and it will continue to give you that little bit extra sustain throughout the game.

If you think that you will be doing a lot of early and mid game roaming then you can take this combo. With and 3x you will be given a large amount of sustain in lane and will be able to roam to bot or top for ganks. This can be extremely handy and give you that early advantage which can carry you to end game. This is also a good combo if you are bad at dodging skill shots from champions like . Since you have your and ,
are even more worthwhile.

This is the final possibility. You may also take this if you want to rush your , or . This may help you out more than a in the long run and have seen it as the main option on many other guides.

Early Game

Early Game Talon is a fairly weak champion and you just want to farm as much as you can until level 3. As soon as you hit level 3 you are ready to start busting down the enemy mid champion.

You're combo should be W->E->Auto-Attack->Q. You want to hit your enemy champion with W, to proc your passive, before you Cutthroat in with E and then use Q to do a hefty amount of damage to the enemy carry.

When you get your ultimate you will have enough damage to finish the enemy champion off, however till that point you may have to "Let some kills go" or ask your jungler to gank your lane and secure the kill.

Core Items

is an amazing item on . For a start it turns his basic attacks into AOE attacks. It also significantly increases his AD however the part which makes this so much more powerful on is the active.

The active deals 100% of your damage to your surroundings (80% at the edge) which means that this item is perfect for assassination.

Furthermore if you activate 's active instantly after auto-attacking you will instantly hit the enemy 2 times. Once for the active and Once immediately after attacking. This means that with by Talon's side, can achieve more than 2.5 attacks per second for the time period of the active.

Again, is a absolutely amazing on . Why you may ask? Well the basic stats are "virtually" useless on . The attack speed is nice but isn't meant to be building DPS. He is meant to be building like a "Glass Cannon".

The beauty of is in it's Active:

"Gain 100% Attack Speed and 100% Critical Strike Chance for 3 seconds or 3 strikes. Cooldown 60 seconds"

Any novice will look at these stats and think "Decent Item on an ADC". WRONG! An ADC's job is do do sustained and continual damage to the enemy. The is a good item only because of its active and this active works only for 3 seconds! So how is it good on ?

Recall: "Talon is a Glass Cannon champion who deals a massive amount of burst damage in a very short period of time"

If Talon is made to be a glass cannon then we should build him like one! This active gives him 100% Crit chance! This means that he does %200 extra damage on his autos. This works for 3 seconds. Sound familiar? That would be because Cutthroat also lasts for 3 seconds. This item's active and Cutthroat Synergies perfectly.

You should use the active immediately after using Cutthroat. This will allow you to do 215% damage at level 18.

I've read many times people saying that is a bad item on . I disagree. I think it works very well with the right combo and is perfect for this build imo. As long as you auto attack after every single ability you will do a huge amount of damage equal to 150% of your base AD. The item also provides talon with a little more survivability from the health and movement speed.

An alternative item that you can use to a similar effect as is . With this item you will be guaranteed to slow your target and thus proc-ing your passive and will do 125% extra damage on auto-attacks. This would be the other choice if you aren't that good at farming and find yourself low on gold.

We get the because it has perfect synergy with . The gives 's crits 150% extra damage. Ultimately this means over the 3 seconds from the active, will deal 450% Extra damage from his basic attacks.

The Glass Cannon Combo

So you have followed this build and you have got all the core items. What can you do now? It is time to evolve to Super Saiyan 3 and do some insane damage! /league-of-legends/item/sword-of-the-divine-97